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gullibility

[ US /ˌɡəɫəˈbɪɫɪti/ ]
[ UK /ɡˌʌlɪbˈɪlɪti/ ]
NOUN
  1. tendency to believe too readily and therefore to be easily deceived

How To Use gullibility In A Sentence

  • In this respect it has been a splendidly artful chancellorship that has lasted the remarkable length that it has due in large part to our gullibility and our apparent willingness to let him get away with it.
  • The current estimate of the sea-gull as an intellectual force is compressed into the word "gullibility" -- a verbal monument of contempt. Days Off And Other Digressions
  • It is mostly our own carelessness, ignorance, gullibility and cheeseparing that allows criminals, hooligans and others to run riot. Times, Sunday Times
  • In this respect it has been a splendidly artful chancellorship that has lasted the remarkable length that it has due in large part to our gullibility and our apparent willingness to let him get away with it.
  • You, on the other hand and obviously not being one, have picked up half - baked, popularist propaganda from that fraudster Richard Dawkins, with a faith and gullibility that would make any witch doctor green with envy. david skinner On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
  • (1,4) Non-analytical thinking essentially means to me gullibility, which is more imaginative than people who over-analyze every situation. Serendip's Exchange
  • Open-mindedness can often be treated as gullibility and therefore used as a tool to manipulate people's beliefs.
  • The reward for their gullibility was a widening of the war (s), a continuing neglect of Constitutional principles, a failure to prosecute those who had lied us into one misadventure after another, a retreat from any single-payer "Medicare for All" healthcare reform, a watering down of climate change initiatives, a postponement of most legislation that would have brought some justice to gay/Lesbian citizens, and a sad abandonment of promises for transparency and open-ness in the Executive branch. You Get What you Vote For!
  • Call it greed, ignorance or gullibility, some people will always be the ‘marks’ - easy prey for the confidence tricksters.
  • He delivered himself of a Ratner moment, when asked if there was any known benefit to homeopathic remedies, beyond the placebo effect (otherwise known as gullibility). The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed
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